How to Choose a QR Menu for the Middle East: An Honest Comparison for Gulf and Iraq Venues
Searching for the best QR menu in the Middle East? Test five things before you decide: Arabic rendering, languages, commission, setup time and total price.
Clear menus in Arabic and English for restaurants, hotels and lounges in Doha, Lusail and Al Wakrah, with French, German and 20 more languages for international guests. Guests scan with the camera, no app, and read in their own language.
Use a QR menu that opens in the phone browser, with no app, and shows every dish clearly in Arabic and English. doXmenu does this among 24 menu languages, Arabic right to left, for 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, about 15 USD, first month free with no card. A hotel manages several menus from one account.
Arabic reads right to left, English left to right, on the same QR code. Guests switch language in one tap without the page reloading; 24 menu languages in total, translated automatically and editable by hand.
Room service, restaurant, pool bar and lounge as separate menus that one account manages, with waiter call and bill request from the guest’s phone once you switch table service on.
Guests scan with the phone camera and the menu opens in the browser, with full-screen dish pages and a swipeable photo gallery. Nothing to download, on iPhone or Android.
Delivery apps take a share of every order. A menu on your table takes nothing: 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, every feature included, first month free.
All 24 menu languages are included in the price. Guests switch language with one tap, and a line you correct by hand stays as you wrote it.
The subscription is 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan, about 15 USD at the ECB reference rate of 25 September 2026: 155.88€ a year, first month free. Your menu shows prices in riyals or any currency you type; only the subscription is billed in euro.
Where it pays off first: Doha hotels running room service, restaurant, pool and lounge menus under one account; Lusail and The Pearl restaurants serving the most international mix in the country; and West Bay business lunches that need a clear English menu with the daily offer changed from a phone.
Four steps from sign-up to the first guest reading your menu. Every change after that is live on every table at once.
No single QR menu is best for every venue, so compare the same points on each one: Arabic laid out right to left, how many languages and whether they are translated, allergens on every dish, how freely you can design it, and the yearly price with everything included. doXmenu’s answers: Arabic, English, French and German among 24 menu languages, the 14 allergens by name, 16 font styles and 70 colour palettes with your own logo, and 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan with the first month free. Shiriny Shaan in Iraq runs its menu on it.
No. Guests scan the QR code with the phone camera and the menu opens in the browser, in English, Arabic or any of the 24 languages the venue switches on. Changing language does not reload the page, and prices and photos stay the same.
Yes. One account manages separate menus for room service, the main restaurant, the pool bar and the lounge, each with waiter call and bill request from the guest’s phone once table service is switched on.
doXmenu is 12.99€ a month on the yearly plan (about 15 USD), 13.99€ on the six-month plan or 14.99€ month to month. Every feature is included, the first month is free with no card, and there are no commissions or per-table fees. Prices on your own menu show in riyals or any currency you type.
Yes. Restaurants, cafés and hotels in Doha, Lusail, Al Rayyan and Al Wakrah can sign up and go live today. Support is on WhatsApp in Arabic and English. The doXmenu shop does not deliver to Qatar, so you download the QR code and print it locally.
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Upload photos or a PDF of your menu and AI builds the draft, or add your dishes yourself. Pick a style, put the QR code on your tables. The first month is free.